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Archive for September, 2009

Traditional framing utilizes wood framing as the skeleton of many residential building.  However more residential builders are seeing the value of using steel framing for housing projects.  Commercial builders have long known the value of using steel studs to fabricate interior walls quickly, easily and cheaply.  Now the same technology is available at a large scale to standard residential building.  Typical steel stud and track use light gauge steel that is formed using a roll former in sheet metal manufacturing.  Steel frame homes also benefit by an increased fire resistance, improved mold resistance and an overall better structure.  Metal fabricators that produce steel construction products such as steel stud, steel corner bead, steel purlin (cee and zee) typically do so with the use of an industrial roll former machine. 

A roll forming machine will take a flat steel plate (typically in a coil) and bend it in to a profile.  It is this profile that when roll formed creates a stud, purlin or other metal product.  Steel building manufactures rely on suppliers that can produce a high volume of product to reduce the overall per piece cost.  The fastest roll forming machine today produces 500 linear feet of steel stud per minute.  That is an amazing amount of product.  Samco Machinery (http://www.samco-machinery.com) is the worlds leader in the manufacturing of roll forming equipment. 

Residential steel framing is now growing from the renovation business to the new construction projects.  Builders have seen the benefits with an increased ability to produce high quality homes using metal studs, metal wall panels, steel beams for steel framed homes.  Perforated sheet metal is also used throughout the home in various forms. 

The three key benefits of using steel studs in new construction are;

1. Strength & Durability of light gauge Steel Framing
2. Cost of Supply for Steel Frame Homes
3. No termite or mold damage

There are many steel building manufactures out there that offer a wide range of products.  Leaders in this industry rely and trust one machine, the roll former.  This machine is the backbone to the production of their product and without a high quality roll former to help them they in turn would not be able to help you.

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The processing and manufacturing of bakery goods such as breads and buns require a number of processes in order to produce high quality products.  Machinery used in this process includes mixers, ovens, rollers, metal detection, slicers and baggers.  All of these and other pieces of machinery used in today’s bread manufacturing both add to the quality of the end product as well the risk of contamination of the product.  

In the bread and bakery industry metal detectors are used throughout the process in order to remove metal fragments as soon as they are introduced.  Metal fragments or contaminates can be introduced in to the product stream through a number of ways.  The most obvious is within the processing of raw ingredients in to the final goods.  Here where mixing machines used to combine dry raw ingredients such as sugar and flour stir them together with large steel mixing blades.  These blades can fatigue over time and small pieces can break off and find there way in to the product.  Many bakeries will install an inline metal detector just after mixing to capture and reject automatically the metal fragments.  

Dough forming usually takes places just prior to entering the ovens.  The dough either enters a rounding machine that creates round dough balls for the production of buns or loaves of bread.  For bread products the dough ball typically passes under a metal chain hanging over the conveyor belt.  This chain slows the top of the dough ball down enough to cause it to roll over itself creating a long round dough ball.  This is then placed in to the pan as it enters in to the oven.  This chain is another spot where metal can find its way in to the product.

After baking the buns or loaves are removed from there baking pans and cooled off on a long circular conveyor belt.  This belt system is a chain link steel conveyor belt and can introduce metal in to the product.

Metal detectors are commonly placed after the cooling racks and just before the slicing machine.  This is an ideal location for the metal detector to capture metal fragments.  However, this is not the last location for the possible introduction of metal in to the product.  The slicers are long steel blades made from thin stainless steel.  Most bread manufacturers fail to install metal detection equipment after the slicer and run the risk of having contaminated product.

Industrial metal detection equipment is a critical piece in the quality control process of any bakery plant.  Location and correct operation of these devices is critical to ensuring the end product is contaminate free.

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With the increase of hot rolled steel many businesses that have a high content of steel in their product are looking for new ways to reduce costs.

Roll forming equipment can have a significant impact on the cost of raw materials used in the manufacturing of automotive parts.  Roll forming machines bend and form flat coils of steel in to many products found in today’s cars and trucks.  When Tier 1 suppliers utilize rollforming equipment to bend metal in to bumpers, door slides, chassis frames, car seats and other sub-assembly parts they know how important quality parts is.

How do roll formers increase part quality in the automotive industry?

The leading manufacturers of roll forming systems (such as Samco Machinery) utilize sophisticated software known as Finite Element Analysis (or FEA) software.  This specialized software allows the rollformer manufacturer to ‘test drive’ the mill before building it.  This advanced technique has allowed for the tooling design to reach new levels.  Automotive parts manufacturers can now benefit from advanced tooling in producing faster, higher quality repeatable parts.  The integration of cold roll forming equipment in the manufacturing process in turn reduces rejected parts and increase overall throughput. 

Quality rollforming companies today utilize project management processes found in today’s automotive industry.  Each milestone enables both the customer and the roll forming manufacture to address any changes and keep on track. 

3 Ways roll formers reduce costs in the Automotive Industry.

1. Reduce the number of defective parts produced
2. Increase volumes reducing per part costs
3. Deliver repeatable part tolerances

These key features allow for the production of Tier 1 automotive parts in a highly competitive marketplace.

Dry ingredient mixing machines and metal contamination.

Where do you install a metal detector in the food process environment?

1. Product costs – Home much have you spent to that point in the production line?
2. How small a piece of metal can you detect? – detecting upstream with a smaller amount of product often leads to better detection overall
3. Potential points of contamination – at what points could/would metal typically enter the product stream.  Install a metal detector after this point.

Metal Detector Usability

One of the most over looked areas of any machine purchase is the ease of use for the operator.  A meal detection systems used for inspecting food, pharmaceuticals, bulk materials or any other product is only effective if setup correctly.  Before you purchase any metal detection system have 2 or 3 people (preferably someone who will actually use it) test drive the interface.  Try to keep the metal detector salesman quite during this process.  They know all the tricks to jump in and out of menu’s.  If you’re operators can’t ‘operate it’ or understand the user manual before you buy, then they will be less likely to ‘get it’ after you buy.

Metal Detector Performance

Metal Detector Reliability

1. Has the metal detector manufacturer built these systems over a long period of time and engineered them correctly?  
2. What type of warranty do they have?  
3. How often do they require service or maintenance?  
4. How quickly can you get replacement parts?

Metal Detector Cost

 Stahldach kommt in einer Vielzahl von Stilen und Formen. Die Herstellung dieser Formen in einer High-Speed-Produktionsumgebung erfordert die Verwendung von einigen sehr speziellen Maschinen. Profilieren Ausrüstung wird verwendet, um Stahlblech, Formen oder Profile Transformation durch Biegen dem Blatt durch eine Reihe von Rollen. Diese Rollen drücken und bilden das Blatt in den verschiedenen Profilen aus Metall Dach eingesetzt. Common-Profile umfassen die Trapez-(oder Kasten) Profil in der Regel zur Verfügung malte in einer Reihe von Farben. Dies ist einer der am häufigsten verwendeten Profile heute. 

Die Ziegel-Blatt ist auch ein gemeinsames Profil, die das Aussehen der traditionellen Tonziegel gibt. Auch dies gemalt ist und bildete mit einem Profiliermaschine. Nicht immer roll ehemaligen Wiederholbarkeit können hochwertige Produkte zu erzeugen. Die Zahl der steht, oder legt der Rollen verwendet zu beugen und das Stahlblech Form ist entscheidend für die End-Qualität der Fliese Blatt. Viele geringeren Kosten rollforming Unternehmen verringern die Anzahl der Durchläufe, um die Gesamtkosten der Maschinen zu verkleinern. Diese kurzsichtige Methode führt eine Reihe von Qualität und operative Ineffizienzen, die zu höheren Kosten und Unzufriedenheit der Kunden aufnehmen zu können. 

Wie also können Sie zu verbessern Stahldach Fertigung? 

Dach Stahl-, Fliesen-Blatt, Verbundplatten und Wellblechdach sind alle hergestellt durch Walzen Ausrüstung. Es ist leicht zu sehen, wie die Wahl der richtigen Rollformer Auswirkungen auf die Gesamtqualität einer Operation. Ein gut gebaut Rolle ehemaligen wird Schrott, Nacharbeit zu verringern und vor allem die Kundenzufriedenheit zu verbessern. Namhafte Profilieren Unternehmen wie Samco Maschinen verstehen und Design es Systeme zu produzieren Qualität Platten Tag für Tag. Wenn Sie Herstellung gibt verschiedene Größen oder Profile aus Stahl Dach Produkte zu gewährleisten, dass Ihre Geräte zu versorgen Ihre Bedürfnisse von Jahr zu Jahr ist in der Lage.